{"id":85906,"date":"2025-08-15T23:37:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T23:37:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/85906\/"},"modified":"2025-08-15T23:37:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T23:37:11","slug":"wandering-soul-in-sharon-relaunches-as-a-full-fledged-bookstore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/85906\/","title":{"rendered":"Wandering Soul in Sharon relaunches as a full-fledged bookstore"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wfmj.com\/\" data-reactid=\"29\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyload\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1755301030_0_20217898_G.png\" alt=\"logo\" style=\"object-fit:cover;\" height=\"70\" data-reactid=\"31\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>News<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When I opened The Wandering Soul, I started as a shop with local art\u2026 and some books,&#8221; Johnson says. &#8220;Now I can finally say \u2014 I&#8217;m a bookstore, with more than 2,500 titles on the shelves.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Thursday, August 14th 2025, 6:52 PM EDT<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"Hero-image--scale lazyload\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/17378586_G.jpg\" alt=\"Image\" style=\"object-fit:contain;\" height=\"560\" data-reactid=\"382\"\/><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"mml-element-link-link\" contenteditable=\"false\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wfmj.com\/link\/809838\/sharon\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">SHARON<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; Downtown Sharon&#8217;s Wandering Soul is spreading the good word as they prepare to relaunch as a fully realized, independent bookstore.<\/p>\n<p>According to the store&#8217;s founder, Dani Johnson, the Wandering Soul began as a cozy shop with a small shelf of books showcasing local artists.<\/p>\n<p>Now Johnson is expanding and preparing for the store&#8217;s official relaunch as a full-fledged bookstore on Friday, August 22.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The event is set to begin\u00a0by\u00a0cutting the ribbon at noon, then celebrating with exclusive deals like the &#8220;bring a book, take a book&#8221; swap and complimentary cookies and coffee before wrapping up at 6 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When I opened The Wandering Soul, I started as a shop with local art\u2026 and some books,&#8221; Johnson says. &#8220;Now I can finally say \u2014 I&#8217;m a bookstore, with more than 2,500 titles on the shelves.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"News &#8220;When I opened The Wandering Soul, I started as a shop with local art\u2026 and some books,&#8221;&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":85907,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[223,88],"class_list":{"0":"post-85906","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-books","8":"tag-books","9":"tag-entertainment"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85906\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}